MK wrote:

“Just look at Munich! It only took them, what, 8 years and a team of experts to switch over 10K computers.”

You’ve been told so many times before the story of Munich. Why should you be told again? You don’t deserve the time of day troll. Look at the time stamp of your post. That’s more than you deserve troll. Go back under your bridge and wallow in your own poop.

Look at Extremadura. They migrated tens of thousands over the weekend.

Not so. The computer geeks of the world don’t need to be curious or masochistic to install GNU/Linux. Most consumers who can run as Administrator or some privileged account can visit http://goodbye-microsoft.com, download an executable and run it. Then they reboot and accept the defaults and provide usernames and passwords and they are running Debian GNU/Linux. It’s cute and cuts through some hard parts like burning a .iso and booting from CD.

There were two things that took a lot of time, migrating the documents/templates and migrating various applications. If they had had a centralized system that migration would have been much easier but each department had its own stuff. That meant more work but it was still worthwhile. They have broken even and should have lower costs going forward. They had to rationalize their system in any event and selecting GNU/Linux made sense to them.

They didn’t have a “team of experts” but used their own staff plus some consultants.